On 6 July 1988, at about 22.00, an explosion occurred on the Piper Alpha platform, an oil and gas production facility in the North Sea. In the disaster, 167 persons lost their lives in what was the world’s worst offshore accident. On 6 July 1988, at about 22.00,...

This HSE Presentation covers current regulatory controls applicable to single or double hull FPSOs and FSUs. It also mention about hazards related to double hull designs which could endanger life at sea.

The uses of computer control continue to grow and if we can learn from the incidents that have occurred we may be able to prevent repetitions. The failures are really human failures: failure to realize how people will respond; failures to allow for foreseeable faults....

Three contractor employees died at a natural gas processing plant as a result of inhalation of H2S released during the unloading of molecular sieves from a NGL drier. Two of the victims were trying to rescue the first worker. The incident description and the learning...